Wagon



(No Model.)

0. M. REGAN.

WAGON AXLE.

No. 362,659 Patented May10,1887

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UNITED STATES ?ATENT OFFIGE.

CORNELIUS M. REGAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WAGON-=AXLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,659, dated May 10,1887-.

Application filed October 4, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS M. REGAN, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedWVagon-Axlc, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one end of a wagon-axle made in accordancewith my invention, the box being removed. Fig. 2 is alongitudinalsectional elevation of the same, the box be ing shown in place upon theaxle.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings,and then pointed out in the claim.

The box A and point nut B are of the usual construction. The axle O isformed with the flange D, which encircles the axle andoverlaps the innerend of the box A, to exclude sand and dust from the axle, and thusprevent excessive wear of the box and axle. In the upper portion of theaxle A is formed the oiling-groove a, which extends nearly to the pointof the axle. This groove is made straight and from three-sixteenths ofan inch deep at the point to five-sixteenths of an inch deep at theshank, to facilitate the distribution of oil and to prevent a too rapidflow of oil in the groove,

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which, if the groove were the same taper as the axle, would cause theoil to be forced out past the axlenut. The oil is admitted to thegroovea through the horizontal opening I), made in the axle in line with thegroove a, below the flange D, and through the vertical hole c,made inthe axle back of the flange D, which latter hole communicates with thehorizontal opening 0.

In the vertical opening 0 is fitted the oil-cap E, to which oil may besupplied, and which is closed with the cap f, so that the axle may beconvenientlylubricated without removing the wheel.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The axle 0, formed with the oil-groove a, reaching nearly to the pointof the axle, and

formed with the surrounding collar D, under-.

out or flanged to overlap the end of the axlebox A, in combination withthe oilcap E, fitted in the vertical passage 0, back 01' the flange D,and the oil-passage Z), in line with the groove a and communicating withthe vertical pas sage c, substantially as described.

CORNELIUS M. REGAN.

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A. M. LEvY, THOMAS J. HULL.

